[needs-packaging] C3SL MDM multiseat display manager
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| Baltix |
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| Ubuntu |
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Bug Description
The C3SL multiseat team is proud to announce the release of "mdm" and of our
multiseat wiki.
MDM stands for "multiseat display manager". Despite its name, mdm is actually a
wrapper on the real display manager. It is used to configure multiseat
environments, allowing users to change a normal machine into a multiseat machine
by just installing a package. No complicated how-tos.
MDM's goal is to be generic enough to support any kind of multiseat environment:
nested xservers under gdm, kdm, xdmcp, vnc, multiple instances of X servers
or any other possible environment. It is still under development, so the only
modes available are Xephyr over XDMCP and Xephyr over GDM. To adapt it to new
environments, you only need to write a small bash script following a simple
interface.
If the video card support xrandr 1.2, mdm opens one session per card output, so
if you have any modern video card (which probably contains more than one
output and crtc), all you have to do is to connect a monitor, a keyboard and a
mouse and install mdm.
http://
| Paulo Zanoni (pzanoni) wrote | #1 |
| Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote | #2 |
| tags: | added: multiseat |
| tags: | added: gdm kdm |
| Kristopher Phillips (kris-d-phillips) wrote | #3 |
The C3SL team is working on packaging mdm for Debian and Ubuntu.
The package development is still at its initial stage, but you might want to use what we have already done. We're also accepting suggestions, comments and patches.
Also, mdm is still at its initial development stage and not exactly ready to get inside the distros, but as soon as we start releasing stable versions we will also provide good Ubuntu packages. We expect that at somewhere around Februrary mdm will be stable enough to be integrated into the distros.
The 'deb-src' repository is located here:
http://
The current mdm repository is here:
http://
We hope the development process will soon be moved to the freedesktop.org repository (it IS there, but it's not being updated since we still don't have commit access)
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If you have any comments, suggestions or plans, please contact us:
multiterminal (at) c3sl . ufpr . br